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OverviewThis book presents a history of Swedish sport, highlighting in particular the relationship between sport politics and people’s changing attitudes towards sport from the eighteenth century until today. It scrutinizes the interaction between sport politics and people’s different approaches to sport in everyday life. By investigating how different ways of pursuing and conceptualizing sport have progressed and interacted, and how they have influenced as well been influenced by sport politics, this book discerns the role of both governmental and municipal politics in the development of sport in Sweden. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jens LjunggrenPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Edition: 1st ed. 2024 ISBN: 9783031461842ISBN 10: 3031461843 Pages: 235 Publication Date: 08 May 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Sport from above.- Chapter 3. A Swedish invention that conquered the world.- Chapter 4: The development of Swedish sport until the 1930s.- Chapter 5: The development of Swedish sport politics until the 1930s.- Chapter 6. The Social Democrats conquer sport.- Chapter 7: The golden age of sport respectability – the post-war period.- Chapter 8: The golden age of the Swedish sport model.- Chapter 9. The polarisation of sport in the post-industrial era.- Chapter 10: Sport – a political exception?ReviewsAuthor InformationJens Ljunggren is Professor of History at Stockholm University, Sweden. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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